Del Cecchi wrote:
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JimH wrote:
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The following item is excerpted from an upcoming issue of a Pacific
NW
boating magazine. It outlines an interesting situation that
doubtlessly
exists throughout the country, as the EPA is the agency ultimately
in
charge of regulating boatyard operations.

Long, so pour a cup of coffee or proceed to the next thread. :-)


EPA, spotted owls, tree huggers, environmental
extremists.................

And one wonders why we can't explore and drill for oil in the US.

Thanks for the article Chuck.



There's no truth to the propgandists's claims that oil companies can no
longer explore for oil or open new wells in the US. Like the
environmental extremists, people who tell you that have placed their
personal agenda above the truth.

The following like will take you to a Shell Oil website, where you can
read about a major expansion of Shell Oil activity in Alaska during
2005.

http://tny.se/1ig

How about the outer continental shelf and gulf of Mexico? I believe the
argument relates to how much area is off limits. And how many new
refineries have been built in the last 20 years?

del


The fact is that no oil company has even proposed the construction of a
new refinery in a very long time. It is in the oil companies' best
interest to limit the number of refineries, and many of the major oil
companies are more concerned with shutting down their existing
refineries than in establishing new ones. There was a well publicized
case where one of the major oil companies announced it was shutting
down a refinery. An independent oil company stepped forward and offered
to pay fair market value for the refinery, (mega millions) but the big
oil company declined and said that it would rather bulldoze the site.
That should tell us all that there are more mega-millions to be made by
tearing down a refinery than by operating it or selling off the
equipment to somebody else who would.

You often hear the radio rabble rousers blame "the liberals" for
preventing the establishment of new oil refineries in the US, but the
oil companies have no collective interest in increasing refinery
capacity. Just try to find a current example of an application to build
an oil refinery of any type, let alone one that is being blocked by
"liberals". :-)